[Haskell-cafe] Haskell on the iPhone

[Jeff Heard]

This is great news!  I'd love to be able to write our cellphone
automated vehicle location clients in Haskell.

-- Jeff

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Don Stewart<dons at galois.com> wrote:
> If you're doing it in Haskell, please feel free to keep plugging.
>
> A new market for Haskell apps is highly welcome.
>
> ryant5000:
>> Jason,
>>
>> iPwn is currently in pre-production for its first title, which will be an
>> action-RPG reminiscent of Diablo and Fallout.  I'll try to keep the shameless
>> plugging on Haskell-cafe to a minimum, but I make no promises :P  I will
>> definitely let people know when our website is put together in some useful way.
>>
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 18:34, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ryan Trinkle <ryant5000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>         Dear Haskellers,
>>
>>         Recently, there's been a groundswell of activity in the Haskell
>>         community regarding the Haskell's use in developing iPhone games.  The
>>         iPhone is a powerful, innovative platform (with a great monetization
>>         scheme, to boot), and it's not surprising that many of us would want to
>>         develop apps for it in our favorite language.
>>
>>         I am proud to announce today that my company, iPwn Studios Inc., is
>>         currently preparing to release an open source patch to GHC that allows
>>         it to output binaries for iPhone OS.  The patch will be released under
>>         a BSD license as soon as possible and hopefully integrated into the GHC
>>         main-line in the near future.  As the first (to my knowledge)
>>         Haskell-based game studio, iPwn Studios is committed to giving back to
>>         the Haskell community through open source - contributing to a rising
>>         tide that lifts us all.
>>
>>
>>     Hi Ryan,
>>
>>     This is great news!  Thanks!  Does iPwn have any up coming titles?  Perhaps
>>     a blog where we could read about them so the "advertising" doesn't hit the
>>     list.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         I would like to take this opportunity to propose the creation of a
>>         haskell-iphone mailing list, so that all Haskellers working with the
>>         iPhone - whether for profit or for pleasure - can come together to make
>>         Haskell a force to be reckoned with in the burgeoning iPhone App
>>         marketplace.
>>
>>
>>     Sounds good to me.  Please post back here if it gets created.
>>
>>     Jason
>>
>>
>>
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